“It’s a classless way of doing it,” Hearn, 77, said. “You have to bear in mind we took a lot of bullets over this. We took a lot of stick, the reputation of our company, our personal reputations when we went to a guy who had failed a drug test twice and we said, ‘No, we believe in him.’ We stood in his corner, as I would always expect Matchroom to do because we have high standards but those standards have not been reciprocated. That is deeply upsetting, and it is personal. We loved the kid; we’d been with him from day one.”
Barry Hearn hugely disappointed with “classless” Conor Benn
